Birthday Time!

The time has come where everyone around me starts celebrating their birthday's. The first one that comes to mind is my dad whose birthday is today and when he reads this happy birthday. Next up will be my birthday this weekend which shows how hectic this time of year is for us. Instead of just celebrating a couple birthdays though they will be celebrating most birthdays all together. Yep thats right on Kristi's side of the family there is still more people with birthdays during this month and there is so much in fact that we'll be celebrating all of them at the same time. This just shows how difficult things are at the moment when it comes to events.

Speaking of events I managed to get my next belt in Tae Kwon Do. I am officially a purple belt which is putting me on the fast track to getting my black belt. You see the next belts if I remember correctly go in the order of blue belt, brown belt, red belt, recommended black belt, and then black belt. This is sounds awesome but there are two very little known facts. First off recommended black belt can take a year at minimum to surpass and finally move onto your black belt. In one year I have gotten half way through all of the previous belts which should tell you something about how it affects the overall time required to reach the next belt. Finally there is the black belt which many people would describe as the beginning of your actual education as their are about 9 achievable ranks in black belt alone which is not including the grand master rank which is 10th rank and only one person in the world may have it at a time. While I am close to getting my black belt it is a lot farther away then it initially appears from the viewers angle.

Grandma Kathy is in town currently to help out around the house while all of this other stuff is going on as well. Certainly sounds good to me because we really need someone else to help out around here. The main reason for this is because while all of this other stuff is going on around our lives Kristi is currently in the hospital and I don't want to say how much we rely on Kristi in our daily lives but apparently it is a lot more then there should be. In other words Kristi is what keeps this entire house from collapsing around us without warning. I feel that there is really no better way to sum this all up as when Kristi ends up going to the hospital things around the house slowly seem fall apart starting with Zoe who doesn't want to listen to anyone other then dad or Kristi and even then she puts up a fight a good chunk of the time. She's not as bad as she used to be but there is still the fact that without one of the two here at home she seems to want to do anything else other then what she has to do at one point in time. This is all one of the most elaborate ways to say Kristi we all miss you and I hope to see you again soon because the house is just not the same without you. While there is easily more reasons to miss you then just keeping things in order like missing you as a step mom who is horribly sick it is still a good way to some up how things are when you are gone how much you affect the actual household.